Sunday, January 22, 2012

January 21, 2012

Last night we attended the Mobile Symphony Orchestra appearing at the Saenger Theatre. Dvorak moved to New York at the turn of the century and wrote the New World Symphony #9. A great deal of it was based on Longfellows poem: Hiawatha. The first half of the program was narrated by three gentlemen explaining the scope and unfolding of the symphony. One of these narrators was none other than Charlie Smoke from the Mobile Arts Council, who has spoken to the Chickasaw Chamber of Commerce. Well known music made better by a stunning orchestra and terrific narriation.

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Born in Natrona Heights, PA. (about 15 miles from Pittsburgh), I moved with my parents to Houston, Texas at age 12. When my father purchased 368 acres of land from Alabama Congressman Frank Boykin to build Ciba Geigy Chemical Corporation in McIntosh, we moved to Jackson, AL.
After buying a home in Chickasaw, AL. my father agreed to send me to Georgia Tech for my degree in Industrial Design. I married an Atlanta girl Sandy Deupree, and we started a family. After working for Allied Electronics, I was asked to be a partner in an Italian Restaurant on
West Peachtree St. which we named The Bistro. It became a folk music "hot spot" in Atlanta and still has a following of now much older fans (see
www.bistroatlanta.com) The last twenty
five years of my career was owner of three pro-audio stores. One in Atlanta,
one in Augusta and one in Charlotte, NC. When my fist wife passed away, I married the former Deborah Morris. We retired back to my parents home in Chickasaw, Alabama where I currently try to help my beloved teenage home town.